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Aldridge vs Griffin

Who would you take. If you had a good team, which player do you think could push your team into contention.

Me personally believe that Lamarcus would be better because he can do many different things. While Griffin on the other hand is an athletic freak, but i feel like thats all he has in his game. He cant shoot, hes not a great defender. I feel like Lamarcus is a guy who can get u boards, play defense, and score. He is also consistent, something Blake Griffin struggles with. When he has a bad game its a very bad game. He just had 4 points against the Hornets. I truely believe that Griffin can only dunk, and thats the only skill he has.

Alridge can rebound and play better defense? It sounds like you just started this thread just to bash on Griffin. Griffin is a better rebounder and his defense is improving this year.

For Alridge I think he's plateaued. He doesn't seem like hes going to improve a lot better than he already is now. Griffin is working on getting a consistent jumper which looks alot better this year than last. He needs to be more solid on defense and learn to shoot free throws better but anyone that would pick alrdige over griffin is out of their mind

I only did that because it was the 3 years Aldridge was actually the "main man" on the Blazers and it coincided with all of Griffin's time.

If you want to look at just last year the numbers are still very similar

PER:
Aldridge 22.7
Griffin 23.4

TS%
Aldridge .560
Griffin .557

Ortg
Aldridge 113
Griffin 113

WS/48
Aldridge .169
Griffin .185

There is no clear winner there. As far as thus far who is playing better I'd say Griffin because Aldridge is just not putting the ball in the hole with his usual efficiency (consider he's normally a 49.3% FG shooter and he's shooting 45.7% this year).

I think it's inevitable that Griffin will pass Aldridge given his work ethic, physical abilities, and basketball IQ but to say he's so much better right now at this moment that it's a joke of a comparison is going too far...

With the deepest of regrets I am announcing that I will be leaving Pro Sports Daily. No reason in particular but wanted to thank everyone for a great 6 years here. Lots of great discussion and good poll series as well. Also fun re-drafts. Best of luck to you all in the future.